Premium pages left without account:

Auction archive: Lot number 22

AN EGYPTIAN GILT AND PAINTED WOOD PTAH-SOKAR-OSIRIS

Antiquities
3 Jun 2009
Estimate
US$6,000 - US$8,000
Price realised:
US$11,250
Auction archive: Lot number 22

AN EGYPTIAN GILT AND PAINTED WOOD PTAH-SOKAR-OSIRIS

Antiquities
3 Jun 2009
Estimate
US$6,000 - US$8,000
Price realised:
US$11,250
Beschreibung:

AN EGYPTIAN GILT AND PAINTED WOOD PTAH-SOKAR-OSIRIS
LATE PERIOD TO PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, 664-30 B.C.
AN EGYPTIAN GILT AND PAINTED WOOD PTAH-SOKAR-OSIRIS LATE PERIOD TO PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, 664-30 B.C. Depicted mummiform, with a blue-painted tripartite wig, the face gilt, with black painted eyes, pupils, cosmetic lines and conforming brows, wearing a broad collar and a pectoral with falcon-head terminals at the shoulders, the body red, a column of hieroglyphs down the center, reading: "Recitation by Osiris, Foremost of the [We]st, Lord of Busiris(?), Great God, Lord of Abydos, the Osiris Te(?)," on an integral rectangular plinth, with a raised back pillar, a mortise in the crown of the head for a now-missing attribute 23 in. (58.4 cm.) high

Auction archive: Lot number 22
Auction:
Datum:
3 Jun 2009
Auction house:
Christie's
3 June 2009, New York, Rockefeller Center
Beschreibung:

AN EGYPTIAN GILT AND PAINTED WOOD PTAH-SOKAR-OSIRIS
LATE PERIOD TO PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, 664-30 B.C.
AN EGYPTIAN GILT AND PAINTED WOOD PTAH-SOKAR-OSIRIS LATE PERIOD TO PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, 664-30 B.C. Depicted mummiform, with a blue-painted tripartite wig, the face gilt, with black painted eyes, pupils, cosmetic lines and conforming brows, wearing a broad collar and a pectoral with falcon-head terminals at the shoulders, the body red, a column of hieroglyphs down the center, reading: "Recitation by Osiris, Foremost of the [We]st, Lord of Busiris(?), Great God, Lord of Abydos, the Osiris Te(?)," on an integral rectangular plinth, with a raised back pillar, a mortise in the crown of the head for a now-missing attribute 23 in. (58.4 cm.) high

Auction archive: Lot number 22
Auction:
Datum:
3 Jun 2009
Auction house:
Christie's
3 June 2009, New York, Rockefeller Center
Try LotSearch

Try LotSearch and its premium features for 7 days - without any costs!

  • Search lots and bid
  • Price database and artist analysis
  • Alerts for your searches
Create an alert now!

Be notified automatically about new items in upcoming auctions.

Create an alert